The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the development of the macroeconomic models in perspective and analyze recent models dominating the economics theory along with discussing a new dynamic model which considers all ...

This paper presents a theoretical model showing how a labor managed firm (LMF) would determine the optimum trade-off between salary levels and investment decisions with the maximization of total utility of its workers as ...

Drawing on the disciplines of Anthropology and Philosophy, this thesis examines the influence of societal conditions and attitudes on adolescent sexual health. Chapters I, II, and IV focus on the United States, where the ...

This project argues that the novel Paradiso (José Lezama Lima 1966) is not a bildungsroman (a coming-of-age novel), contrary to popular and scholarly opinion. Instead, it constructs a world of symbols and metaphors, and ...

“I am already incapable of sense/Which, in a senseless place,/Is the only sensible feeling.” These are the words of Erifila, the female protagonist of Lope de Vega’s Los locos de Valencia, as she is institutionalized in a ...

γ-Fe2O3 maghemite nanoparticles were synthesized via the homogeneous thermal decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl. This synthesis took place in the presence of a capping molecule, octanoic acid, and a mild oxidant, ...

In this thesis, I explore the concept of belonging as it has applied to mustangs and people through time in the Great Basin of the American West. The mustang, or wild horse, is an animal that has existed on Western lands ...

In recent years, countries in the Global South have experienced a significant increase in the concession of large tracts of land by domestic and transnational companies, as well as governments, primarily for the production ...

I called over 700 Title X grantees in 8 rural states (West Virginia, Kentucky, Iowa, Vermont, Wyoming, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Maine) posing as a pregnant woman seeking abortion services. The goal of this project was ...

Urban streams are characterized by their impervious surface cover, lack of riparian vegetation, and pollutant loading. Studies have shown that urban streams uniquely cycle nutrients and pollutants leading to degradation ...